3DContentCentral part hoses Assembly (?)

Very strange 'coincidence' happened the other day. I needed a human size
model to place in an assembly to get an idea of scale. I went to
3dcontentcentral, registered, and DL'ed the 2001+ version of MAN 2, 4th
down on the Human page, in the Misc Folder of the User Library. I opened
the MAN, it's a single part file in 2003sp4 and Saved. Next I inserted
it into the large assy file, after placing one mate, I got mate errors
in just about every subassy in this file, deep ones that had *nothing*
to do with the most recent mates.

After about 30 minutes of trying to find the problem, and well after
deleting the MAN from the assy, I gave up and resorted to the backup
from the day before, loosing about 4 hours work.

As I was shutting down there were numerous errors in SWX which prevented
me from closing it the normal, proper way- I had to kill it thru the
Task Manager.

I like the idea of a user library for parts like this, but it's not
likely I'll be back after an episode like that.

Anybody ever seen anything like that or had any other problems with
3dcontentcentral?

BTW- anyone have a simple human model that works they could share?

Whit

 

Could it be that the MAN was "fixed" and as soon as you entered a mate all
the fully defined parts in the assembly showed errors?

Al

 

Ooo, I'd feel pretty stoopid if that were the case.

But I'd Inserted many parts in this assy above/before 'him', none of them came
in 'fixed'. In fact I've never (in about a year of SWX) seen any part after the
first in an assy come in 'fixed'.

Can this happen?

 

We have used a human that came from the SW model library. Go here
http://www.solidworks.com/pages/ser...listmodels.html?C1=Special Interest&C2=Humans
and choose one. I personally have used the one by Dan Smith.

WT

 

True, I could have spazzed and done that by accident, I've done it plenty of

I've seen it when mates get confused, and all heck breaks loose, but usually
simply deleting the part that just caused it will make things right again.

That's true, I did get Homer Simpson to work fine, he's just a little
shorter and wider than many of our operators ;o)

I do *try* but I'm sure some of you guys would cringe at some of the things I
do. Very little 'formal' edumication in SWX, mostly what I try to pick up
lurking here.

I've still got the 'man' in my Recycle Bin if anyone wants to take another
look, time constraints on this end, I gotta keep pushing forward.

Thanks
Whit

 

I don't know about a part can come in fixed, maybe some kind of smartmate?
I've run into it with subassemblies brought in and dissolved. We have huge
libraries of subassemblies and every now & then I'll insert one where the
first item wasn't switched to "Float". It's always a shock when you hit
Dissolve and a sh*t load of red flags appear!